I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Black boys always fancy a mixed-race girl. That's my theory anyway. — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black… — Kevin michael Copy Share Image
Black boys shouldn't have to feel that being good at sports is the only way to be cool - or to be… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Every black man in Chicago walks through the world differently, and I think what young black boys do is observe, and that's… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success.… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
“I imagine us in Eden— two black boys in Paradise, naked, no fig leaves. Adam and Eve are long gone, so Kieran… — Dean Atta Copy Share Image
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Every February, we reflect on and honor the achievements, struggles, and icons that comprise Black history. As a proud, Black man running… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You will not wonder at his weird pilgrimage,-who who in the swift whifl of living, amid its cold paradox and marvelous vision,… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
“The attendant looked at Camilo, looked at Link, blandly, incuriously. Link thought, In New York all the black boys who go in… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Listen, I traipse no I run no I sprint--a fat, impotent ghoul sprung straight from the cellar of my childhood home--past the… — Leland Pitts-Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Then it occurred to her (Elizabeth Keckley) that if Tad (Lincoln’s son) had been a colored boy rather than the son of… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write.… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I lie in a bathtub of cold water, still sweating and singing love songs to myself. I put the gun to my… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He was looking at Mr. Nancy, an old black man with a pencil moustache, in his check sports jacket and his lemon… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Poem for My Father You closed the door. I was on the other side, screaming. It was black in your mind. Blacker… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
“Marjory Gengler (white American) to Mark Mathabane (black South African) in the late 1970s-- Marjory: Why don't blacks fight to change the… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
“I think of my grandma and remember that old feeling of being so in love that nothing matters except seeing and being… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“Do you know what it feels like to be labeled a devil for simply existing? Do you know how it feels to… — D.L. Dotstry Copy Share Image
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